Playground of US capitalism? : the political economy of the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1980s -- Berkeley : from the April coalition to the Clean Underwear Gang -- Roxbury : capitalist investment or community development? -- Bernie Sanders and the Rainbow in Vermont -- New York : David Dinkins opens the door -- Youngstown : rebuilding the Labor Movement from below -- Bank hegemony and class struggle in Cleveland, 1978-79 --Chicago : the legacy of Harold Washington -- Black political power on trial in Alabama -- Phoenix rising : explosive growth in the Sunbelt --Battle of East L.A. -- Montreal Citizens' Movement : the realpolitik of the 1990s? -- Social democrary on the frontier : the case of the Yukon --Battle of New Tenochtitlan.